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1954 Ferrari 750 Monza, entered and driven by Franco Valobra.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
The main theme for the 2026 Goodwood Revival was ‘La Dolce Vita,’ celebrating 100 years since the founding of Maserati’s motorsport division with a daily track parade of the company’s racing cars. In addition, the Lavant Cup on the Saturday featured a grid made up solely of 1950s Maserati and Ferrari sports cars. [Read more…] about Italian cars at the Goodwood Revival, Part 1
1951 Ferrari 212 Export entered and driven by Martin Halusa.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
Jonathan continues to capture the Italian cars taking place at the Goodwood La Dolce Vita events. [Read more…] about Italian cars at the Goodwood Revival, Part 2
Helio Castroneves
Photos by Jonathan Sharp
Jonathan Sharp as been photographing the drivers at both the Goodwood Festival and the Revival since 2013 (see link below). And aside from their awesome talent behind the wheel, almost all of the drivers share a bright smile, as if they are really, truly, enjoying themselves. And given the evidence over the past 13 years, we tend to think that this behavior is in fact an honest reflection of their feelings.
So enjoy another season of “Drivers” at Goodwood, thanks to Jonathan Sharp.–Ed. [Read more…] about Goodwood Driver’s Portraits, 2026
“Shipshape and Bristol Fashion”
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
I suppose it had to happen. After something like 50 days without rain in the area, and frankly, rather unpleasantly hot temperatures, Wednesday September 2nd dawned wet and cool in Brighton. But the weatherman said it would clear later, so off I went to the Prive Concours. Three hours later I pulled into the car park at Blenheim Palace just as it started to rain; the weather had decided to follow me north and stayed with me for most of the day.
Earlier this year, Jonathan Sharp had a chance to visit the Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile in Turin and photographed this remarkable exhibition devoted to British Formula One teams that made life miserable for Ferrari in the 1960s through the 1980s. Per the Museo, “Enzo Ferrari used to call them, somewhat dismissively, ‘garagistes,’ the British teams that challenged Ferrari’s dominance.”
Titled “The Drake’s Enemies: Enzo Ferrari and the British Teams,” the exhibit opened on April 2 and will run until October 11, 2026.
Lockheed P38L-5 SN 44-53254 Lightning. Pure poetry in motion, such grace, such poise, the elegant sound of the twin Allison V12s and definitely my highlight of the show. In fact I would go so far as to say it was one of the best displays I have seen for a long time, and I have been watching planes for many a year.
Story and Fantastic Photos by Jonathan Sharp
The final part of the jigsaw that is my month of visiting the stately homes of England was a visit to the Shuttleworth Estate in Bedfordshire for their Festival of Flight Airshow held over two days the same time as the Heveningham Hall Concours (June 26-28) so it meant another night in a hotel, which this time did have air conditioning as per the British summer of 2026 it was blooming hot. Unlike the October ‘Race Day’ event, the Festival of Flight is just an air show, but Shuttleworth being Shuttleworth meant there were still some interesting non aviation things to see before the flying commenced in the afternoon, as you will see from the following photographs.
As to the flying! What a show, hats off to the team that booked the aircraft. The start for many being an original Messerschmitt bf109 flown over from Germany and making its first appearance at a UK air show. My highlight however, has to be the aircraft from the Flying Bulls’ collection of Salzburg, Austria. It was a shame that the Grumman Bearcat could not make this trip, and their Corsair went tech (broke down) at their temporary base at Duxford on the Sunday, but never mind, we still had their P51, P38 and B25 to enjoy. I hope the following photos give you a taste of what was a great event.
A Koenig Special, based on the Ferrari 348 complete with a twin turbo V8.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
For the past few years, the Villa d’Este Concorso has not been the only show in town as it now shares the limelight with Guglielmo Miani’s Fuori Concorso, which is held across three lakeside villas about a kilometer outside Como, all on the same weekend as Villa d’Este, (this year, May 16-17).
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Photos by Jonathan Sharp
From the VeloceToday Archives, September 2019.
Count Trossi’s Maserati Summer of 1936
Lead photo: Ewen Sergison in the cockpit of Nigel Griffiths’ Maserati s/n 1532 at Goodwood, April 6-7, 2019. See below for much more.
Recently we republished an old story by Ed McDonough about Count Felice Trossi, which prompted a reply from Nigel Griffiths, who told us he owned the ex-Trossi 6CM Maserati and would be at the 2019 Goodwood Members’ Meeting in April with the very same Maserati, s/n 1532.
Now isn’t that coincidental, I said, as Jonathan Sharp would also attend and could he get some photos of 1532? Of course, said Nigel. Jonathan checked the program and found that the 6CM is car 58 entered into race 4 with practice is on Saturday morning, and the Parnell cup is the first race at 9am on Sunday morning. We are good to go.
1957 Ferrari 500 TRC by Scaglietti
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
Saturday morning, April 18th, dawned bright and sunny, in fact probably a bit too hot especially as it is only April. Having spent Friday morning running up and down Via Nazionale followed by a full day of site-seeing in Rome, we decided to catch a taxi to the Concorso held at Casina Valadier, rather than take the Metro or walk, very reasonable at only 10 Euros.
The object of our exercise.
Exclusive story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
The first event of the first Anantara Concorso Roma, the Giro d’Anantara, held on the 17th April, took lucky entrants on a journey through the heart of Rome to Frascati, and back to Rome. The start point was the Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Hotel, finishing at the Casina Valadier in the Villa Borghese, where the main event was to be held over the weekend, with suitable stops for coffee with a lunch break at the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati.
Winner of best in show, Mr Sascha Baggli’s 1951 Bentley Mark VI Cresta II by Facel Metallon. This unique vehicle was commissioned by Jean Daninos as a gift for his wife.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
In the lull between Retromobile and the proper start of the 2026 season I thought you might indulge me by allowing me to show you an event that we did not have a chance to publish in 2025 – the Cartier Style et Luxe concours which is an integral part of the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed.
You can always rely on the Cartier team to come up with a great selection of classes and last year was no exception.
The Renault 4cv based Le Tank Burnel.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
You may recall that last week I mentioned that for a French show it contained a lot of Italian Cars, well having finished sorting through over a 1000 photos I can now say that for a French show it also contained a lot of very interesting French cars, and British cars too, and not forgetting the Germans and even a few American cars for good measure. I also mentioned that the themed displays this year were of a very high standard with the highlight probably being the Bugatti display. Titled “Bugatti, Les Insolites De Molsheim,” aka “Bugatti, the Unusual creations of Molsheim,” simply stunning and not a Type 35 in sight.